76,000 Tehran Residents Turned to Forensic Medicine Due to Fights

The Forensic Medicine Organization of Tehran Province has announced that over 76,000 residents of Tehran sought medical attention due to fights last year. The public relations department of the Tehran Forensic Medicine Organization reported on Sunday, January 21, that the number of visitors to the organization's centers in Tehran Province due to fights and brawls in the last eight months, until the end of November, was 76,070, indicating a 1% increase compared to the same period last year. According to the announcement from Tehran's forensic medicine, of the total visitors due to fights this year, 50,158 were men and 25,912 were women. Earlier this year, Iran's forensic medicine announced that over 100,000 people visited forensic centers across the country due to injuries from street fights in the first two months of the current year. It was noted that in terms of the number of visitors during this period, Tehran Province had the highest number with about 18,000, followed by Razavi Khorasan with over 8,000 and Isfahan with 7,000, while South Khorasan, Ilam, and Semnan had the lowest numbers of visitors due to fights. One of the most notable incidents of fighting this year was the report of knife attacks by a group in a hospital in Ardabil last November. Experts attribute the rise in conflicts and fights in Iran to economic problems, poverty, unemployment, drug use, disputes over ownership, overpricing, frustration and social pressure, sexual dissatisfaction, and a lack of upbringing and education in anger management.